DICE: Making Star Wars: Battlefront 'Is Scary'

DICE Executive Producer Patrick Bach has spoken about how the studio got tasked with Star Wars: Battlefront and the pressure that comes with working in the Star Wars universe.

During a talk given at BAFTA in London, which mainly focussed on Battlefield 4, Bach played the E3 teaser for Battlefront.

"So... that's pretty cool," he said. "Who would've thought Star Wars would be made in Sweden?"

Bach went on to reveal that employees at DICE were already talking about the project in the weeks leading up to EA acquiring the rights for the series. "It's quite interesting. For some strange reason – coincidence, I don’t know – we had a discussion at the office about what happened to Battlefront. You know, the old IP that someone else made that was a ripoff of Battlefield. Bastards! We should’ve made it. It was a competition of powers. We couldn’t do both at the same time."

By a bizarre twist of fate negotiations were already taking place. "For some reason EA was negotiating with Lucas slash Disney, as to whom should make the new Star Wars games. And just a week later it was like, 'Oh, by the way, that discussion you were having about Star Wars? Do you want to make it?'... 'Well, yeah.'"

The reality soon set in, though, admitted Bach, "We weren’t as cocky when we got the chance, because to take on something like this is scary, as you can imagine. You can only screw up, right?

"We’ve been promising ourselves if we’re doing this we need to do it right. So trust me, we’re hard at work to figure this one out.”

Battlefront is expected to release sometime in 2015 on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

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